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Media Release: Trapdoor spiders disappearing from Australian landscape

“We have good historical records of trapdoor spiders going back 60 years which showed population numbers were reasonably good, but recent surveys of the same areas show numbers are extremely low, and in some cases spiders are completely absent,” says project leader Professor Andrew Austin, from the University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Evolution Biology and Biodiversity.

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